Word Meanings - CHAPERONAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

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• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• CHAPERON
  1. A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell. 2. A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• PUBLIC-MINDED
  Public-spirited. -- Pub"lic-mind`ed*ness, n.
• CHAPERONAGE
  Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.
• PUBLIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury. To the public good Private respects must yield. Milton. He touched the dead
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• PUBLIC-HEARTED
  Public-spirited.
• AFFORDMENT
  Anything given as a help; bestowal.
• PROTECTIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
• PUBLICITY PAMPHLET
  A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed
• AFFORDABLE
  That may be afforded.
• AFFORD
  fr. for forth, forward. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See 1. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an
• REPUBLICANIZE
  To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
• REPUBLICATE
  To make public again; to republish.
• REPUBLICATION
  A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint. If there be many